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incidentally wouldn't have been guilty of editing out that particular phrase, but somehow I think it got edited out.

In any case, this was the -

Q:

Were your colleagues on the editorial page involved?

Oakes:

No. No.

Q:

They were not.

Oakes:

No. I was the only editorial -

Q:

Let me ask you to pursue this line.

Oakes:

Not even Raskin, my deputy. No, only myself.

Q:

The head of the sports department, the business section, was either of them involved, do you know, in the New Jersey sessions?

Oakes:

Sports wasn't. Sports wasn't. Was Tom Mullaney the then business editor of the Times? You know, I honestly can't remember whether Tom Mullaney was there. He certainly didn't take a very active part. And by “there,” I am not referring to that session we had at Absecon, New Jersey, which lasted a couple or two or three days. Other sessions





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